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law. he is a united states citizen that committed the crime. jay carney said we will prosecute this terrorist through our civilian system of justice under u.s. law. united states citizens cannot be tried in military commissions. >> if the justice department had tried him as an enemy combatant lindsey graham would have said you're break the law. he's an american citizen. >> stephanie: why didn't we follow donald trump's idea of waterboarding him before he recovered from his throat injuries to see what kind of information we could have gotten. >> water board him while his head is underwater. if he doesn't answer, then we know he did it. >> stephanie: he's dead. now we don't know anything. thanks donald. by the way -- >> you're fired. snow cover senator graham and janet napolitano. >> it picked up his departure but not him coming back, correct? >> the fbi text alert on him at that point was more than a year old and had expired. >> stephanie: a lot of interesting stuff including surprising tho
law. he is a united states citizen that committed the crime. jay carney said we will prosecute this terrorist through our civilian system of justice under u.s. law. united states citizens cannot be tried in military commissions. >> if the justice department had tried him as an enemy combatant lindsey graham would have said you're break the law. he's an american citizen. >> stephanie: why didn't we follow donald trump's idea of waterboarding him before he recovered from his throat...
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is this where laws on the books have been ignored? >> laws are ineffective if you don't have the people to enforce them. and osha is so under staffed it can't possibly do the work. as for regulation, across the board we need increasing regulation. it protects business too. it is not good for businesses, and certainly not good for the west fertilizer company right now in west texas to have undergone what it has gone through. i think that conservative and liberal lines break down at times like this. all of west, texas conservative right through to perhaps a few progressives there are horrified by what happened. and there is no question that serious concern for human beings, for workers regulation is the answer. >> john: amy goodman is the host and executive producer of "democracy now," the greatest radio show. >> and tv. >> john: and tv. i'm sorry it's been such a sad occasion. you're going to stick around for the next block? great. we'll talk about the boston marathon bombing. both sides of the gun debate say this proves their point. a
is this where laws on the books have been ignored? >> laws are ineffective if you don't have the people to enforce them. and osha is so under staffed it can't possibly do the work. as for regulation, across the board we need increasing regulation. it protects business too. it is not good for businesses, and certainly not good for the west fertilizer company right now in west texas to have undergone what it has gone through. i think that conservative and liberal lines break down at times...
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the senate was not able to pass a law tightening background checks last week. on friday nate bell tweeted this . . . >> michael: representative bell, i wonder how many of them wish tougher gun laws would have stopped the brothers from getting guns in the first place. you, sir, are a moron. coming up will the boston bombings impact the immigration talks here? you better believe it. and remember the whole airport armageddon that we never saw? well, we're seeing it now. and it was 10% political exercise, 80% three-ring circuit, and 10% awesome. monday night in "the war room," and we will be right back. ♪ >> if you believe in state's rights but still support the drug war you must be high. >> "viewpoint" digs deep into the issues of the day. >> do you think that there is any chance we'll see this president even say the words "carbon tax"? >> with an open mind... >> has the time finally come for real immigration reform? >> ...and a distinctly satirical point of view. >> but you mentioned "great leadership" so i want to talk about donald rumsfeld. >> (laughter). >>
the senate was not able to pass a law tightening background checks last week. on friday nate bell tweeted this . . . >> michael: representative bell, i wonder how many of them wish tougher gun laws would have stopped the brothers from getting guns in the first place. you, sir, are a moron. coming up will the boston bombings impact the immigration talks here? you better believe it. and remember the whole airport armageddon that we never saw? well, we're seeing it now. and it was 10%...
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but will apply to all foreign laws. some of which are of a ha braic nature. this law as the gentiles say is kind of meshugganah. the application of foreign law in certain cases bill, really rolls off the tongue, isn't doesn't it, is meant to ensure a florida judge doesn't move rule on a case using sharia law. but this law would bar state courts from recognizing orthodox jewish divorce agreements. orthodox jewish divorces only happen rarely as opposed to american judges applying sharia law which only happens never. reach for comment all of the elderly jewish women in florida released a joint statement saying for once mr. big shot isn't too busy to call. never mind, it is no concern of yourself. if i'm subjected to sharia law don't worry about me. i'm only your mother. wtf, florida. your communities of jewish retirees are political kingmakers. nobody gets elected to national office without coming out in favor of a strong and secure boca raton so why are you passing a bill that would aggravate them? believe me, you're not
but will apply to all foreign laws. some of which are of a ha braic nature. this law as the gentiles say is kind of meshugganah. the application of foreign law in certain cases bill, really rolls off the tongue, isn't doesn't it, is meant to ensure a florida judge doesn't move rule on a case using sharia law. but this law would bar state courts from recognizing orthodox jewish divorce agreements. orthodox jewish divorces only happen rarely as opposed to american judges applying sharia law which...
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it was clearly against the law. u.s. law and international law. no doubt about it. >> 25 years ago last week, president ronald reagan supported and asked the congress to pass the u.n. convention -- the united nations convention against torture abuse degradement, et cetera. we violated that. our own domestic laws, we violated those. other international treaties, we violated. so yes. >> bill: now did you find, did you look into and did you find, did we get anything out of this torture? did we get any information out of this torture which made us more secure, save lives? >> that's a question that is not fully answered in that we did not find that the torture led to any kind of usable evidence or usable information. on the other side, those who were in the administration at the time avert that it did. the problem that we have is we did not have access to classified information to determine whether it is did or it didn't. it was our opinion that those who say that it did lead to usable information had the burden of proof to show how. but from what we w
it was clearly against the law. u.s. law and international law. no doubt about it. >> 25 years ago last week, president ronald reagan supported and asked the congress to pass the u.n. convention -- the united nations convention against torture abuse degradement, et cetera. we violated that. our own domestic laws, we violated those. other international treaties, we violated. so yes. >> bill: now did you find, did you look into and did you find, did we get anything out of this...
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you may not want to -- admit it. >> and stand your ground laws led to more murders. one guy thought a kid was playing his stereo too loud so he shot him to death. rick he found three case out of 84 in which an armed individual who had been on the scene used a firearm to stop the shooter. none of the three were ordinary citizens. two were off-duty police officers and one was a u.s. marine. so, you know, remember we had all of the guys calling in, particularly the aurora -- i would have -- here's what i would have done with my spider-man skill -- no, you wouldn't have, beaufort. you would have [ bleep ] your pants. >> first, he had full body armor. you weren't going to hit him anyway. he had this gigantic magazine. he could keep shooting forever. >> stephanie: it was dark and smoke. >> bullets were flying through the walls. >> stephanie: i would have knowed with my spidey sense he was going to do it and then i would have -- >> make sure he couldn't have not done it. >> stephanie: probably would have shot a bunch of spectators by accident and then shot your own [ bleep
you may not want to -- admit it. >> and stand your ground laws led to more murders. one guy thought a kid was playing his stereo too loud so he shot him to death. rick he found three case out of 84 in which an armed individual who had been on the scene used a firearm to stop the shooter. none of the three were ordinary citizens. two were off-duty police officers and one was a u.s. marine. so, you know, remember we had all of the guys calling in, particularly the aurora -- i would have --...
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it was against international law. number 3, we did it even though there is no firm or persuasive evidence, reading from the report, that they produced any valuable information or any information that we could not have gotten through other means, zero evidence of anything out of that torture. and he engaging in torture, from the bi-partisan report quote, damaged the standing of our nation reducedour capacity to enact moral 7censure and increased the danger to u.s. military personnel taken captive. we did it. it was illegal, we got nothing out of it. we damaged our standing, we made our own military -- put our own military more at risk and more in danger and then, finally the report contains appendix of 22 pages muchof legal cases where the united states has either condemned or prosecuted people for doing the very same thing that george bush and dick cheney had done. stunning report. >> it's one of those things you hate to say i told you so, a lot of people we knew that torture was happening, on the left said they shoul
it was against international law. number 3, we did it even though there is no firm or persuasive evidence, reading from the report, that they produced any valuable information or any information that we could not have gotten through other means, zero evidence of anything out of that torture. and he engaging in torture, from the bi-partisan report quote, damaged the standing of our nation reducedour capacity to enact moral 7censure and increased the danger to u.s. military personnel taken...